
Graz: The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights published a fundamental rights foresight report on 29 October 2026 that maps how rights protection in Europe could erode, or strengthen, by 2040.…

Utrecht: The European committee that assesses veterinary medicines recommended five new products at its November meeting, including the first medicine backed under the EU limited market framework since new rules…

Liège: EU finance ministers agreed on 9 November 2026 to scrap the IOSS 150 euro threshold, opening the way for VAT rules that treat every imported online parcel the same…

Porto: Eurostat data released on 9 November 2026 show that the EU house price to income ratio stood 6.8% higher in 2025 than in 2015, confirming that home prices have…

Villach: The European Commission has approved €319 million in Austrian State aid for an Infineon GaN plant in Villach, Carinthia, in a decision announced on 28 October 2026. The direct…

Ostend: The European Commission cleared €2.04 billion in Belgian offshore wind aid on 10 November 2026, giving Belgium a fresh legal basis to restart the first tender in the Princess…

Milan: NextGenerationEU debt could push outstanding EU borrowing to 1 trillion euros by 2027, the European Court of Auditors warned in its annual report of 8 October 2026. Euronews reported…

Dublin: Euro area GDP grew by 0.4 percent in the third quarter of 2026 compared with the previous quarter, and the European Union as a whole grew by 0.5 percent,…

Copenhagen: The European Environment Agency has warned that critical infrastructure failed in several sectors at once during the extreme weather of 2026, and it says repairing damaged assets will not…

Bordeaux: The fight over pesticide approval periods has moved into December, after the European Parliament again postponed a vote on the Commission’s plan to lengthen them. AFP reported on 5…

Palma: The European Parliament has approved new flight refund rules that make travel agents and booking platforms return the full ticket price, including their own fee, within 14 days of…

Luxembourg: The Court of Justice ruled on 3 November 2026 that a disproportionate sentence does not, by itself, let a national court refuse a European arrest warrant. The judgment, reported…

Antwerp: The EU-US trade deal legislation includes a safeguard clause and an end date of 2029, according to the Commission’s description of the political agreement reached on 22 May 2026.…

Rotterdam: The Circular Economy Act remains on the Commission’s list for 2026, and the sources reviewed do not confirm that a formal proposal has been adopted. Packaging Gateway reported in…

Paris: ESMA direct supervision would cover fewer markets than the Commission wanted under the Council position on the market integration and supervision package. Finance ministers agreed the key elements of…

Athens: The EU Civil Protection Mechanism has now been activated more than 900 times since its creation in 2001, the European Commission said on 23 October 2026 as it marked…

Lille: The EU parcel handling fee was expected to take effect by 1 November 2026, but the sources reviewed do not confirm that it is in force and do not…

Vigo: The European Commission proposed the 2027 fishing quotas for the Atlantic, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak on 5 November 2026, and the draft cuts Iberian hake while raising anglerfish.…

Montpellier: A call titled Transformative Change Towards a Nature-Positive Economy and Society will direct 237 million euros of Horizon Europe money to biodiversity research, the European Commission announced on 30…

Verona: The revised organic products rules must reach agreement within seven weeks, because the current regime for organic food imports expires on 31 December 2026. The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee…

Berlin: The European Competitiveness Fund reaches its first parliamentary test on 10 November, when the Industry, Research and Energy Committee is expected to approve compromise amendments to the regulation that…

Galway: A revised draft of the Cloud and AI Development Act would narrow the European Commission’s powers over cloud sovereignty requirements and make compliance easier for public buyers, according to…

Sofia: Industrial producer prices in the euro area rose 2.5% in September 2026 compared with August, according to Eurostat figures reported on 6 November, and the annual rate climbed to…